champignon

See also: Champignon and champigñón

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French champignon.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃæmˈpɪnjən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæmˈpɪnjən/

Noun

champignon (plural champignons)

Some champignon tops, cleaned and, in one case, bisected.

1. Agaricus bisporus, a species of mushroom commonly used in cooking.
   • 2007 January 31, C. J. Chivers, “A Soviet Agricultural Success: Vast Greenhouse Complex”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Moscow’s food stores, formerly famed for bare shelves and long lines, are now kept stocked with fresh champignons and greens […] .

2. (obsolete) Any mushroom.
   • 1849, George Waterhouse, Conjugal Felicities and Infelicities, page 47:

     The Kamtschadales frequently avail themselves, by way of regale, of a venenose species of champignon […]

Synonyms

• (Agaricus bisporus): button mushroom, cremini, crimini, cultivated mushroom, portobello mushroom, table mushroom

Derived terms

• fairy ring champignon

Translations

Agaricus bisporus

• Azerbaijani: şampinyon
• Belarusian: пячурыца f (pjačuryca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食用傘菌／食用伞菌 (shíyòng sǎnjūn), 食用香草 (shíyòng xiāngcǎo), 香蕈 (zh) (xiāngxùn), 双孢蘑菇 (shuāngbāo mógu), 洋菇 (yánggū), 口蘑 (zh) (kǒumó)

• Czech: pečárka dvouvýtrusná f, žampion dvouvýtrusný m
• Danish: champignon (da) c
• Dutch: champignon (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉampinjono
• Finnish: herkkusieni (fi)
• French: champignon de Paris (fr) m
• German: Champignon (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: βωλίτης m (bōlítēs)

• Hungarian: kétspórás csiperke (hu)
• Ido: champiniono (io)
• Japanese: マッシュルーム (ja) (masshurūmu), 作り茸 (つくりたけ, tsukuritake)
• Kazakh: қозықұйрық (qozyqūiryq)
• Macedonian: шампињо́н m (šampinjón)
• Norwegian: sjampinjong m
• Persian: قارچ خوراکی (qârč-e xorâki)
• Polish: pieczarka (pl)
• Portuguese: champignon (pt) m, champinhom (pt) m, champinhão m
• Romanian: șampion m
• Russian: шампиньо́н (ru) m (šampinʹón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шампѝњо̄н m

  Roman: šampìnjōn (sh) m

• Slovene: šampinjon (sl) m
• Spanish: champiñón común m, champiñón (es) m (Lat. Amer.)
• Swedish: trädgårdschampinjon c (specific), champinjon (sv) c (less specific, but more common)
• Ukrainian: печери́ця f (pečerýcja), шампіньйо́н m (šampinʹjón)
• Volapük: jaben (vo)

See also

• Agaricus bisporus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French champignon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕɑmpʰinˈjʌŋ]

Noun

champignon

1. champignon

Declension

Declension of champignon

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	champignon	champignonen	champignoner	champignonerne
genitive	champignons	champignonens	champignoners	champignonernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French champignon, from Middle French champignon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɑmpi(n)ˈjɔn/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: cham‧pig‧non
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

champignon m (plural champignons, diminutive champignonnetje n)

1. A champignon, a button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus.

Derived terms

• champignonsaus
• champignonsoep

- individual species:

• plompe champignon (“coastal mushroom, Agaricus litoralis”)
• reuzenchampignon (“Agaricus augustus”)
• straatchampignon (“banded agaric, Agaricus bitorquis”)
• toverchampignon (“Allopsalliota geesterani”)

 

French

Alternative forms

• champi (clipping)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *campāniolus (“grows in the field”), from Late Latin campāneus (“relating to fields”), from Latin campānia (“level country”). The “accelerator” sense comes from the fact that accelerator pedals were initially mushroom-shaped.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.pi.ɲɔ̃/

• audio

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Noun

champignon m (plural champignons)

1. mushroom

   des champignons hallucinogènes ― hallucinogenic mushroom, magic mushroom

2. fungus in general

   Synonym: mycète

   Hyponyms: ascomycète, basidiomycète

3. fungal infection

   avoir des champignons ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (informal) accelerator pedal

   Synonym: accélérateur

   appuyer sur le champignon ― to step on it, to floor it, to put the pedal to the metal, to put one's foot down, to step on the gas

   le pied sur le champignon ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   champignon au plancher ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• appuyer sur le champignon
• champignon chinois
• champignon de Paris
• champignonner
• champignonneux
• champignonnière
• champignonniste
• pousser comme des champignons

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: xampinyó
• → Crimean Tatar: şampinyon
• → Danish: champignon
• → Dutch: champignon
• → English: champignon
• → Galician: champiñón
• → German: Champignon
• → Italian: champignon
• → Luxembourgish: Champignon
• → Portuguese: champignon
• → Serbo-Croatian: šampìnjōn, шампѝњо̄н
• → Spanish: champiñón

See also

• fongique
• fongus
• moisissure
• mycélium

 

Further reading

• “champignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “champignon” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “champignon” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

Noun

champignon m (invariable)

1. (mycology) champignon, button mushroom, crimini (Agaricus bisporus)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French champignon.

Noun

champignon

1. alternative form of sjampinjong

References

• “champignon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• champinhom, champinhão (rare)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.pĩˈɲõ/ [ʃɐ̃.pĩˈj̃õ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.pĩˈɲõ/ [ʃɐ̃.pĩˈj̃õ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/

Noun

champignon m (plural champignons)

1. champignon (Agaricus bisporus, a small, edible mushroom)